I'm
using Live with a sort of jam/hip-hop band (drums, bass, guitar, rapper) to run
some loops as accompaniment sequences, and also, more interestingly, to capture
live loops of the musicians (currently just rapper and guitarist until I get
more inputs) and modify them with effects and envelopes to build new sequences
on the fly during jams. The envelopes are cool for quickly looping just parts of
a live loop, or changing up the rhythmic character. I also really like the
built-in Live Granular Delay effect which can really change up the sound and
feel of a loop in a smooth way - cool for slow morphing.

There
are some features that Ableton could add to make Live easier to use for all of
this, but overall it's really cool and fun. But I'm pretty new to all of these
various programs, so I don't know what else I'm missing by using Live at this
point! :)

I've
got Live sync'ed to the tempo-tracking software I've been developing, so it
follows the drummer. I'll be performing (with Knoble1) and demo'ing all of this
at the Philadelphia Electronic Music Arts Festival this
weekend:

I guess thatís about
as far as Iíve gotten. What about you? Where have you taken Live,
or where has it taken you? I know that Per uses it a lot, and shared
some in the last few days with the discussion thread thatís been going
on.